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- 0:01SPEAKER_00: And here we are.
- 0:02SPEAKER_00: Let's do this.
- 0:12SPEAKER_00: There we are.
- 0:13SPEAKER_00: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are in the world.
- 0:16SPEAKER_00: I'm the Bonnie D.
- 0:18SPEAKER_00: It is October 1st.
- 0:21SPEAKER_00: Those of you like me who are Libra babies, well, it's our month.
- 0:25SPEAKER_00: What can I tell you?
- 0:26SPEAKER_00: Let's see what she has to share with us today.
- 0:28SPEAKER_00: We have some interesting things, some interesting milestones, and here she is.
- 0:32SPEAKER_00: It's getting cooler.
- 0:33SPEAKER_00: I don't think she's hiding anymore.
- 0:34SPEAKER_00: Okay, a bunch of a whole lot of firsts.
- 0:37SPEAKER_00: 1908, the Ford Model T went on sale for the first time, produced on the moving assembly line.
- 0:43SPEAKER_00: Yes, Henry Ford.
- 0:44SPEAKER_00: 1958, jumping 50 years ahead, American Express launched its first paper-based charge card.
- 0:50SPEAKER_00: Paper?
- 0:51SPEAKER_00: What?
- 0:52SPEAKER_00: I'm scratchy.
- 0:53SPEAKER_00: Transition to plastic.
- 0:54SPEAKER_00: Mmm.
- 0:57SPEAKER_00: The next year.
- 0:58SPEAKER_00: In 1982, CDP101, the first commercial CD player by Sony, launched in Japan.
- 1:05SPEAKER_00: And the first commercially released CD was Billy Joel's 52nd Street.
- 1:09SPEAKER_00: The music industry transitioned from analog vinyl or vinyl, as some people say in cassettes, to digital audio.
- 1:15SPEAKER_00: And in 2001, the Japanese telecom giant NTT Dokomo launched FOMA.
- 1:22SPEAKER_00: We know that's something different.
- 1:23SPEAKER_00: World's first commercial 3G wireless network.
- 1:26SPEAKER_00: Let's go on and see what our special Okay, I think it's still Coffee Week.
- 1:30SPEAKER_00: So let's talk about the oldest coffee houses in the world.
- 1:32SPEAKER_00: Cafe Florian in Venice is the world's oldest continuously operating coffee house since 1720.
- 1:39SPEAKER_00: And then Cafe Le Procope is Paris' oldest operating cafe since 1686 in the Bohemian district of Saint Germain-despris.
- 1:48SPEAKER_00: Cafe Regio in New York City is the U.S.'s oldest continuing operating coffee shop since 1927.
- 1:55SPEAKER_00: If you're downtown, go to see it at 19 McDougall Street in Greenwich Village.
- 1:59SPEAKER_00: I used to hang out there.
- 2:00SPEAKER_00: And Cafe Frauenhauber is the oldest Viennese coffee houser founded in 1824, originally a medieval bathhouse.
- 2:08SPEAKER_00: Oh my goodness gracious.
- 2:09SPEAKER_00: Well, if you don't want to have coffee and you want to go bar hopping, I have a couple of those for you too.
- 2:12SPEAKER_00: The White Horse Tavern in Newport, Rhode Island, been around since 1673.
- 2:17SPEAKER_00: See it on the left.
- 2:18SPEAKER_00: McSorley's old alehouse in New York City is the oldest since 1854.
- 2:22SPEAKER_00: Bell in Hand Tavern there on the lower left in Boston since 1795.
- 2:27SPEAKER_00: And Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop Bar in New Orleans since 1930.
- 2:32SPEAKER_00: So I say New Orleans.
- 2:33SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 2:34SPEAKER_00: Let's go to birthdays.
- 2:35SPEAKER_00: Bob will do these for you first.
- 2:36SPEAKER_00: It's vegetarian day and vegan birthday day.
- 2:40SPEAKER_00: There's vegan day, so it's up to you.
- 2:42SPEAKER_00: Homemade cookies, you can have vegan cookies or you can have regular cookies.
- 2:46SPEAKER_00: It's chili week.
- 2:47SPEAKER_00: It's a little cool here.
- 2:48SPEAKER_00: Huh?
- 2:49SPEAKER_00: And Lace Day, what can I tell you?
- 2:51SPEAKER_00: Okay, let's do birthdays.
- 2:52SPEAKER_00: William Boeing, well, aviation pioneer, you know who he is, born today in 1881.
- 2:57SPEAKER_00: Walter Mathau, funny man, actor.
- 2:59SPEAKER_00: He played Oscar Madison in the Odd Couple in so many more roles.
- 3:02SPEAKER_00: 1920 was his birthday.
- 3:04SPEAKER_00: Richard Harris, 1930, famous actor, but I know him best as singing the original MacArthur Park, the song, the sweet seven-minute song before Donna Summer did.
- 3:14SPEAKER_00: Julie Andrews, beautiful lady, born in 1935.
- 3:17SPEAKER_00: Actress and singer, The Sound and Music and Mary Poppins.
- 3:19SPEAKER_00: We all know her.
- 3:20SPEAKER_00: Zach Galifanakis, 1969 birth year.
- 3:23SPEAKER_00: Actor and comedian Alan in the Hangover trilogy films.
- 3:27SPEAKER_00: Randy Quaid, born in 1950, actor, he played Cousin Eddie in the National Lampoons Vacation movies.
- 3:33SPEAKER_00: And Bree Larson, born in 1989, actress, and she played, among other roles, Captain Danvers and Captain Marvel in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- 3:42SPEAKER_00: Let's go back to our music, do a couple of shout-outs, and let you get on with your day.
- 3:47SPEAKER_00: So here we are, engineer.
- 3:48SPEAKER_00: Let's do this.
- 3:49SPEAKER_00: Kathy Davis, this is for you.
- 3:53SPEAKER_00: Shout out.
- 3:56SPEAKER_00: Teresa G and the family.
- 3:58SPEAKER_00: Thanks for visiting.
- 3:59SPEAKER_00: Dr.
- 3:59SPEAKER_00: Bob, what's for dinner?
- 4:01SPEAKER_00: I don't need chili, but I'll take something else.
- 4:03SPEAKER_00: Charles Brakefield, Enigma author.
- 4:06SPEAKER_00: Go be techno, go be thrilled.
- 4:07SPEAKER_00: Jeremy and Meyer traveling around.
- 4:09SPEAKER_00: Have a good vacation.
- 4:10SPEAKER_00: Mary Meyer, that's you and your family.
- 4:13SPEAKER_00: Mary Natalie, glad you're back from Gurkhon.
- 4:16SPEAKER_00: Sounds like it was exciting.
- 4:17SPEAKER_00: Chili and Joe B next door.
- 4:19SPEAKER_00: Beautiful back porch.
- 4:20SPEAKER_00: Thanks for the pictures.
- 4:21SPEAKER_00: Kathy Lou Trell, hope all is well.
- 4:26SPEAKER_00: Kathy Jenny Davis.
- 4:28SPEAKER_00: Hello, Carol O.
- 4:29SPEAKER_00: J.
- 4:29SPEAKER_00: B, Jebellow, Simon Mice and Family.
- 4:32SPEAKER_00: James Susie Future, Marcel, my friend, Lowly, Bobby Costum.
- 4:36SPEAKER_00: So many people I want to say hello to, and then I just didn't with people doing what they do.
- 4:41SPEAKER_00: We're just gonna go.